danmdevries wrote:These good to go for a while? Or will they referment in a few months?
The other is that I don't have the patience to allow them to age properly. Maybe eventually I'll be willing to make the commitment of space and time, but I dont want to spend that kind of money for something I can't enjoy for a year or more.
'Sick period' for cigars is all subjective. Only way to tell if you like a fresh cigar is to smoke em'. If you get a box and they smoke well, then keep on smoking em'. If you hit one where they taste a bit off norm, put em away in the humi for another 6-12 months and then revisit.
Cuban cigars have been smoking much better fresh than they have inyears past. Don't have the explanation for that, but it's a general consensus across multiple forums I dabble in. Not all marcas, but many.
As for the patience and space comment you made Dan....I said the exact same thing when I started out. Didn't even really like cubans at all either. Most I'd tried I didn't particulary care for. I was accustomed to the power & pepper blast of the non-cubans. After upgrading my storage capacity to a wineador, and sourcing my own cubans instead of getting a single or two here and there, I can now load up 5-10 boxes plus multiple singles drawers and let the aging thing take care of itself. Until you're able to do something similar, my advice would be to stick to the sites like OLH, or box-splits/group buys with BOTL here until you figure out what it is exactly you like & then begin considering upgrading your storage. Non-cubans may just suit your palate better. All part of the journey, which takes FAR too much time & WAY too much $$ to eventually figure out.